论蒲松龄的“美俗”思想

On Pu Songling's Thoughts on "Improving Customs"

《荀子·儒效》云:"儒者在本朝而美政,在下位而美俗。"美政和美俗是封建时代知识分子的最高治世理想。蒲松龄作为终老乡间的知识分子和伟大作家,毕生致力于济世化俗、敦厚人伦,其《聊斋志异》和诗文俚曲等都充分反映出对于当时伦理现状的关注以及对风衰俗怨的批判,他还提出了士君子修身为核心、以传统伦理道德观念为基础、带有近代人文主义色彩的美俗思想和伦理设计。

Teachings of the Confucians of Xunzi says, ＂Confucians should purse better governance when in power and improve or purify social customs when in lower power.＂ These two pursuits are the loftiest ideals of feudal intellectuals. Staying life-long in the countryside as a scholar and writer, Pu Songling devoted all his life to improving social customs and ethics. All the poems and folk songs in his famous Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio reflect people＆#39;s concern about ethics and criticism of social customs of his time. He also envisioned superior men＆#39;s cultivation of the mind as the core and traditional ethics as the foundation.